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Snakeskin Veil

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

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Times Brought

1722

Decks Running

793

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Snakeskin Veil

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) · Common · Illustrated by Monztre

Final zone distribution

330 instances

3.0%

Library

5.8%

Battlefield

40.9%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1722 brought · 678 players

Brought to game

1722

Ever drawn

297

Reached battlefield

133

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=100) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1024).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=119).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +8.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=133

18%

54%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 1% (1 / 133 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.